The two sides in the Civil War -- Slavery in America -- A nation divided -- Abraham Lincoln for president -- Secession -- Fort Sumter attacked -- Raw recruits -- The first battle of the war -- Confederate generals -- Union generals -- The Monitor and the Merrimack -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- Black soldiers -- The battle of Chancellorsville -- The war in literature -- The battle of Gettysburg -- The draft riots -- General Ulysses S. Grant -- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address -- Angels of the battlefield -- Staying in touch -- The home front, North and South -- "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" -- The election of 1864 -- Sherman's March to the Sea -- Battles in the backyard -- Surrender at Appomattox -- The president has been shot! -- The ashes of war -- Reconstruction -- Civil rights and wrongs -- Key players -- Civil War Timeline -- Glossary -- Find out more

The two sides in the Civil War -- Slavery in America -- A nation divided -- Abraham Lincoln for president -- Secession -- Fort Sumter attacked -- Raw recruits -- The first battle of the war -- Confederate generals -- Union generals -- The Monitor and the Merrimack -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- Black soldiers -- The battle of Chancellorsville -- The war in literature -- The battle of Gettysburg -- The draft riots -- General Ulysses S. Grant -- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address -- Angels of the battlefield -- Staying in touch -- The home front, North and South -- "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" -- The election of 1864 -- Sherman's March to the Sea -- Battles in the backyard -- Surrender at Appomattox -- The president has been shot! -- The ashes of war -- Reconstruction -- Civil rights and wrongs -- Key players -- Civil War Timeline -- Glossary -- Find out more